lackeyofsanta

Can anyone recommend some awesome classes that are worthwhile, regardless of major? Like a particularly useful or interesting class for fun

Johnson181

What are you interested in?

I personally always recommend art classes (the f20 electives). B&W photo is one of my all time favorite classes, and I'm an engineering major.

If you don't want to deal with the subjective nature of art, take it p/f. From what I've seen, you're pretty much guaranteed to pass if you do the work, but getting an A is an uphill battle (I worked my butt off for an A-).

RyanMK

Obviously, it all depends on your interests. While the art classes are probably amazing as Johnson says, they simply aren't for me. Just explore courses which sound like they have the potential to be interesting, and you may find a new passion.

If you can't find something which really jumps out at you in the regular course listings, make sure to check out the UCollege. It's a continuing education / professional studies school through wustl which allows students to enroll in a class or two. It typically has some more offbeat courses, such as glassblowing, which has gotten some good reviews.

In terms of practicality or usefulness, I'm sure that a few intro level finance/econ/business classes could help many, and comp sci may play a role in quite a few areas of work. Or possibly even a foreign language if you plan on spending time with people who speak that language.

RaVNzCRoFT

Music of the Beatles was a fantastic class.

generallyrong

I've had good experiences with anthro classes taught by Stone or Childs.

steal1115

i can't say this is the easiest class (most people don't get As) but i absolutely loved into to psych. it's so useful to have, the material was very interesting, and i had really great professors. the exams aren't the easiest so if you don't need the class for any distribution/major requirements then i'd suggest taking it p/f

i've heard people really like the anthro classes (cultural and intro to archaeology). intro to women and gender studies is supposed to be good. management 100 gives as practical overview to the business world but be prepared for a lot of group projects and the case competition

there are some great 300 level classes but unless you're an upperclassmen you probably wouldn't be able to take those yet

thentheresme

I highly recommend American Politics with Lowry. The material is pretty basic (if you've taken AP Gov, you can probably pull an A- without too much effort), but Lowry is an amazing professor and it's worth going to class all the time just to listen to him. I found it a really good course for getting used to the pacing of college classes and also everyone just loved him so it ended up being a great experience.

Intro to Western Art also has a great lecturer, Wallace, but you have to learn good study habits fast to do well there.